Biography
George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing, for helping found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
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Awards & recognition
- St. Louis Literary Award · 1969
Filmography41 titles
The West
Good Will Hunting
Coney Island
The Simpsons
Lawrence of Arabia
The Civil War
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
ER
When We Were Kings
Baseball
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Donner Party
Reds
Saturday Night Live
Nixon
Wings
The Dick Cavett Show
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Just Shoot Me!
Little Man Tate
Infamous
L.A. Story
American Experience
Rio Lobo
Soul Power
The Queen
The Last Days of Disco
Just Cause
Garbo Talks
Factory Girl
The Capote Tapes
Edtv
The Detective
Shortcut to Happiness
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Volunteers
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Just Visiting
A Fool and His Money
Sam the Man
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson